For greed all nature is too little.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

All art is but imitation of nature.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.